init.d script for Node-RED

node-red

#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          node-red
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start or stop the node-red server
### END INIT INFO

# User that launches node-RED (it's advised to create a new user for Node-RED)
# You can do : sudo useradd node-red
# then change the USER=root by USER=node-red
# if you change the user, dont forget to also change the ownership of the log file (and create it if it doesn't exist):
# sudo chown NEWUSER /var/log/node-red.log
# else the log won't be writtable
USER=scott
# USER_DIR='/home/scott/.node-red/'
NAME=node-red
DAEMON=/usr/bin/node-red-pi
OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=256"

if [ -n "$USER_DIR" ];  then
		OPTIONS="$OPTIONS --userDir=$USER_DIR"
fi

LOG='/var/log/node-red.log'
PIDFILE=/var/run/node-red.pid
. /lib/lsb/init-functions

case "$1" in
	start)
		log_daemon_msg "Starting daemon" "$NAME"

		if [ ! -f  "$LOG" ]; then
			touch $LOG
                        chown $USER $LOG
        	fi
                
		start-stop-daemon --start --background --quiet \
			--chuid $USER  \
			--make-pidfile --pidfile $PIDFILE \
			--startas /bin/bash -- -c "exec $DAEMON $OPTIONS >> $LOG 2>&1"
		log_end_msg 0
	;;
	stop)
		log_daemon_msg "Stopping daemon" "$NAME"
		pkill -SIGINT ^node-red$
		rm -f $PIDFILE
		sleep 1
		log_end_msg 0
	;;
	restart)
		$0 stop
		sleep 5
		$0 start
	;;
	status)
		status_of_proc "$NAME"
		exit $?
	;;

	*)
	echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
	exit 1
esac
exit 0